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Volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea
November 21, 2023 - Some residents of a remote Papua New Guinea island are preparing to evacuate from the vicinity of an erupting volcano that shot a cloud of ash into the sky forcing the cancellation of flights.
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Teams had been sent to the Mount Ulawun area on New Britain island to coordinate an evacuation after it began erupting on Monday, state broadcaster NBC PNG reported senior disaster management official Clement Bailey as saying.
Flights from the island's Hoskins airport had been cancelled, the broadcaster said, adding that the volcano was still erupting.
Papua New Guinea is on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a horse-shoe shaped band of volcanoes and fault lines circling the edges of the Pacific Ocean, Reuters said.